A well-tooled environment does not just spring out of an ether. Maintaining proper tooling in a distributed system often requires more work than the system itself. In a lot of cases, the business does not even consider this kind of time commitment, pushing the team to churn out features, and who eventually just bog down in insane complexity.
I resisted learning a lot of it knowing that there will be a snap-back to simpler designs long-term, and it's happening now.
And when I tried, it went nowhere. After months of work on my side project with Electron, Typescript, and Vue, I was in the same place because every time I opened IntelliJ, it seemed all of my effort went into just having it build again.
Now I chose ArrowJS for my project, and it's been a delight. Look, I get it, but I would refrain from accusing the other person of laziness in this case.
It's the second, younger generation of devs who are realizing that "complexity kills". Those of us who started in 2000's have already seen this. It's a natural cycle. We are seeing a spring-back to monoliths and away from micro-services and crazy tooling chains.
It was completely unnecessary, and most importantly, cost the industry a fortune. If you are older, you have been wondering why you need to work more to achieve less. To me this has been demoralizing, and actually put me through some tough cycles of depression. I no longer enjoy this job. I used to DO things and walk away from my desk every day having a sense of achievement. Now it takes 3 days to set up your microservices locally just to reproduce a bug, apparently because your system with moderate traffic needs to look like Shopify.
I think sometimes. I am sure there are some "holier than though" individuals that are thoroughly apolitical.
Here in the United States, a certain political party all but appropriated Christianity for themselves, even though their own platform (or now lack of one) is the direct opposite of what the religion teaches.
That's political, but this is the new morality police.
I am still recovering from the religious "moral values" people who were insufferable as recently as a few years ago, and who have proven to be hypocrites on just shocking levels.
This movement of the "white, fluffy and righteous" is just taking their place.
Instead of trying to hide from the past, how about we use the art of that era to teach the new generation why certain things are wrong?
It's like drinking to forget instead of confronting the issues head on. You pretend it's not there, then you sober up - nope, still there.
I don't think the people who want to sanitize our past and who want to cancel others based on something done or said 20 years ago (when it was acceptable) understand that THEY will be judged by a different set of rules decades from now.
One thing they did at Github years ago was get closer to the metal by ditching JQuery. You can do the same things - and more - with ES6 and updated browser support pretty much across the board. Nowadays you don't even need a transpiler.
I think the employees in their 20s are valued because they have the time and the energy to "power through". They work hard and party harder. But this powering through results in things that, yes, work, but are engineer-hostile and hard to maintain. They also quantitatively produce more output, useful or just overly complicated.
Us fossils think more before we do anything, because we ain't got all life, and we definitely want to keep it as simple as possible, as we don't want to be getting calls after dinner time - at 6PM :)
It's only a matter of time. A building is planned, the step-by-step orchestration is QA'ed by a qualified engineer, and a set of robots go to work to build a whole building. Construction jobs will be phased out.
Also, in the movie Runaway - which actually predicted police areal drones as well, almost 30 years ago (but the concept of a drone did not exist yet, so it was called a "floater").
Because risk. Rich, privileged people can try different things with zero risk of becoming destitute. And that's how they practically stumble into new opportunities. Adam Neumann was making collapsible heels and toddler knee-pads before he decided to try the pyramid that is WeWork, which ultimately bought him a private jet and multiple houses.
Me? I didn't have a chance to "try" things. My room for error was zero. Must get above 90 average. Must get scholarship. MUST find job. MUST be there at 9AM. MUST pay rent.
Now I am saving money to take one year off to work on my own thing, but only because my first future ex-wife works for NYC and I can be on her insurance. Without that safety net, at 40, no way.
So, not everyone can be born a failson like Jared Kushner, but what we CAN have is a safety net to let people take risks.
I realized after the fact that I have been contributing above my income level - I was sort of aware I might have been out of the range but I never paid attention. The screens are nagging you about being at $0 contributions.
Congress doesn't write laws - people like Peter Thiel do. You sound like these billionaires are innocent virgins. "Oppsies, I made all these billions because the incompetent congress let me do it". Uh huh.
I push a button that says "Contribute", and it's fraud. Donald Trump buys land in New Jersey for $2 million to develop a golf course, the golf course is deep sixed by the town, he writes "$100 million loss because that is what it is worth in my opinion", and it's fine.
God forbid I make a few thousand dollars tax-free, let alone by accident.